Charlie Sheen is the latest in a string of celebrities to have been tricked by the Montreal comedy duo The Masked Avengers. Britney Spears, Bono, Bill Gates and Sarah Palin have also been pranked by the pair.

Marc-Antoine Audette, who pretended to be Dujardin in the phone call, told The Canadian Press: "We thought, 'Why not take the identity of Jean Dujardin, who just won an Oscar, who is one of the hottest guys in Hollywood right now, and see how Charlie Sheen would react?'"